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friend and I went out to eat for Thanksgiving three years ago at a first-class
restaurant in the Wellington Mall and again this year at a good restaurant on
Okeechobee Boulevard. We had been previously to both restaurants a few times and
been served delicious meals. For the Thanksgiving turkey meal at both places,
however, what we were served was the pits. The white meat was some kind of
processed meat from turkey breasts and was on the dry side. At one
establishment we were told we could have only white meat OR dark meat, but not
both! Of course we resolved this by one us ordering white meat and the other
dark. In both instances the dark meat wasn't that good, and neither were the
stuffing or the gravy! A veggie conglomeration LOOKED good this year, but alas,
it was tasteless. About the only good thing this year was the appetizer soup
and the cranberry sauce. I know this probably isn't being thankful, but . . . .
Have
any of you had like experiences when ordering a Thanksgiving turkey dinner? We
want to know where one can eat out on Thanksgiving, but we'd also like to know where
NOT to go! I could do far better at the Carving Station on Route 1 in Lake
Park. It's a buffet, definitely "old Florida," and a half-hour drive
from here, but they carve actual roasts right in front of you, and their meals are delicious—about $14 a
person plus beverage and dessert.
Sometimes restaurants pull in unaccustomed workers to produce a Thanksgiving meal at a difficult time. I invited family a few years ago to Dune Deck, dry and oversalted, etc. Since then I go to potlucks, have had great meals with all the fixinsx2 and cooked with love.
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